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Artist: Illum Sphere
Title Of Album: Ghosts Of Then And Now
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: Ninja Tune
Genre: Electronic
Quality: FLAC
Total Time: 43:34 min
Total Size: 286 MB

Tracklist:

1. Liquesce 
2. At Night (Feat. Mai Nestor) 
3. Sleeprunner 
4. The Earth Is Blind (Prelude) 
5. The Road (Feat. Shadowbox) 
6. Ra_light 
7. It'll Be Over Soon 
8. One Letter from Death 
9. Ghosts of Then and Now 
10. Love Theme from Foreverness (Feat. Shadowbox) 
11. Lights Out/In Shinjuku 
12. Near the End 
13. Embryonic (Feat. Shadowbox)

Ryan Hunn, AKA Illum Sphere, is founder of ManchesterΓÇÖs renowned club night Hoya:Hoya, has remixed Radiohead, toured the worldΓÇÖs best club nights and released music on some of its finest imprints ΓÇô 3024, Tectonic, Young Turks, and now Ninja Tune, where heΓÇÖs found a long term home.

His album arrives on the back of eager expectation. If anyone seemed set to make one of the standout albums of the era, it was Illum Sphere. The good news is that heΓÇÖs delivered in spades.

Ghosts Of Then And Now has been deliberately and uncompromisingly conceived as a full length record; an album in the traditional sense, full of music that couldnΓÇÖt be more modern, whilst nodding to Hunn's various influences.

Opener "Liquesce" ΓÇô which features the drumming of Shigeto ΓÇô is aptly titled, conjuring as it does a sense of blissful dissolution. It also contains a haunting refrain thatΓÇÖs deceptively familiar, the sort of melody line youΓÇÖll hear for years. The song ends abruptly (and cleverly) in a deep intake of breath, as if preparing itself for the album ahead.

"At Night" shows not only how adept with vocals Illum Sphere is ΓÇô layering Mai Nestor of FacitΓÇÖs beautiful voice into his music in a startlingly effective fashion ΓÇô but also just how far he pushes the template of his form. Elements of all the go-to genresΓÇÖ glitch, bass and drum experimentation are present here, but Hunn has mastered them completely, using them only for genuine emotive effect.

"The Road" is the first of three fruitful collaborations with Shadowbox, AKA Bonnie Baxter. Driving drums with an industrial edge merge with anxious synths and looping, lilting melodies, the distinctive, rich vocal both seductive and foreboding.

"ItΓÇÖll Be Over Soon" builds from an exploratory, ominous groove to a frenetic, restless release, in a study of mood that approaches the existential. "Lights Out / In ShinjukuΓÇÖs" deep bass and elemental, sci-fi synths steer the album towards its transcendental ending in "Embryonic." This the final part of the three Shadowbox collaborations, see her return to glorious effect. A simple, shuffle-swing drum and haunting melody give way to abruptly to ocean-deep bass and vast, emotive melody.

Ghosts Of Then And Now is further proof that electronic music is taking giant leaps forward. This is a record so rich in ideas, themes, textures and writing that it will draw the listener in time and time again. As such, it will take its place alongside the best works in the form.